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interesting article on the Summer Birds of the White Moun- 

 tain Region, by H. D. Minot, is found in the American Nat- 

 uralist of 1876. Herein are detailed notes on the birds ob- 

 served by him at Bethlehem, constituting one of the first impor- 

 tant papers on the avifauna of the White Mountains. At about 

 this time, also, valuable lists of birds, with annotations, from 

 Webster and HoUis, appeared in Forest and Strea?n, the result 

 of observations by Mr. C. F. Goodhue and Dr. W. H. Fox re- 

 spectively. During the next decade much valuable data relat- 

 ing to the birds of the State was contributed in the form of 

 notes or short articles in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornitholog- 

 ical Club, notably by Messrs. T. M. Brewer, William Brewster, 

 Ruthven Deane, W. H. Fox and H. M. Spelman. In 1887 ap- 

 peared Dr. A. P. Chadbourne's List of the Summer Birds of 

 the Presidential Range, followed the next year by two short 

 lists of summer birds seen at Holderness, Bethlehem and Fran- 

 conia by Messrs. W. Faxon and J. A. Allen, and a third list, 

 in 1889, of the summer birds at Bridgewater and Moultonbor- 

 ough, by Mr. F. H. Allen. These catalogues were fairly com- 

 plete and added much to the knowledge of a region but little 

 studied at that time. In these years, also, appeared a number 

 of short articles by the lamented Frank Bolles, dealing in a pop- 

 ular way with the wood life of the Chocorua region. These 

 essays were later brought together into book form in an attrac- 

 tive volume entitled " At the North of Bear Camp Water." 

 Since 1884, a number of delightful essays have appeared from 

 time to time, in the Atlantic Motiihly, from the pen of Mr. 

 Bradford Torrey. These deal chiefly with the life of the Fran- 

 conia region, and have done much to stimulate interest as well 

 as add to our knowledge of the flora and fauna of this part of 

 the mountains. These articles are also to be found collected in 

 several small volumes, such as " The Foot Path Way," " Foot- 

 ing it in Franconia," and others. An attempt has been made 

 at Dartmouth College to arouse interest in the- study of the local 

 flora and fauna, and to this end there appeared, in 1891, a List 

 of the Vertebrates Found within Thirty Miles of Hanover. 

 This seems to have been intended only as a preliminary cata- 



